Yeah the wild pitch sound was on it's way out when rise from your grave dropped. The Phuture guys did release Spirit on Strictly Rhythm and Pierre dropped What Is House Muzik on Emotive a couple of years later but not much beyond that really came out. At least anything I've seen beyond that has just been repressing of the original classics. If anyone knows of any records I might have missed I'd love to hear about them!
I think labels such as DJ Duke's Sex Trax and even DJAX-UP were partly to blame for the downfall. Duke was big on the wild pitch sound and DJAX-UP was big on the Chicago tip. From what I saw people jumped all over those imprints, me included. Unfortunately many of the projects were less melodic and more techno, which influenced many wild pitch producers to start cranking out banging techno records versus staying true to the original wild pitch style. Granted I liked the banging stuff, many other labels were already putting out techno of that nature so I personally didn't like to see the older Chicago producers who understood the Wild Pitch formula going that route. -----Original Message----- From: placid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 8:49 AM To: 'Dan Kurzius'; 'Stewart Caig'; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) Felix Da Housecat I went to see dj Pierre in London when he was pioneering the wildpitch sound.. I asked him if he was going to be doing anymore acid and he said no..cos he wanted to concentrate on the wildpitch thing.... He had just released 'rise from your grave'... Fantasy girl was in 87. Are u saying it was wildpitch sound in between then cos if it was. I missed it..... -----Original Message----- From: Dan Kurzius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July 2004 13:45 To: Stewart Caig; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) Felix Da Housecat > The only time I heard him spin was with Robert Hood at a London gig many > years ago. I think he had just started Clashback records and it was at the > start of the whole WildPitch thing. I have to correct something that was mentioned here real fast :) Legend has it that Flex got his production start by sitting in and contributing keyboard on Pierre's Fantasy Girl project http://www.discogs.com/release/132582 in the late 80's. Within a year of that The Wild Pitch sound was alive and kicking, Clashbackk dropped circa 96'. The Wild Pitch sound was brought to a broader audience by labels such as Strictly Rhythm around the time Clashbackk was started, but unfortuntely the sound was dying off when projects such as Rise From Your Grave hit. Kind of singled the beginning of the end :( We used to go crazy to Wild Pitch records in the late 80's/early 90's, that sound has always been one of my favorites, I'd love to see a resergence in it. Does anyone know if there are any recent tracks in that vain floating around that are worth grabbing? Cheers dK www.latenightessentials.com
